Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.... #JohnClute #quote https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-clute-quotes/#8e0aa40d

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.... #JohnClute #aphorisms https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-clute-quotes/#1296bbf4

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.... #JohnClute #quotation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-clute-quotes/#8e0aa40d

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.... #JohnClute #quote https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-clute-quotes/#378af968

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.... #JohnClute #aphorisms https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-clute-quotes/#b28f7c3f